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[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

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FDA Maharashtra has launched grievance redressal portal for citizens. It is AI enabled platform, having auto assignment, auto escalation and built in accountability with traceability features .
https://t.co/597si71Z6E
#TukaramMundhe #FDA

[Neha Nagar @nehanagarr]

RBI made a new rule starting from 1st Jan., 2027.

If you lose money to an online banking fraud, your bank may have to pay you back.

Say you lose up to ₹50K.

You can get back 85% of it, up to ₹25K.

So, if ₹20K is lost, you get ₹17K back.

But you've to report to your bank & the cyber helpline 1930 within 5 days.

If the fraud happened because of the bank's fault, when you report doesn't matter.

But if you gave away your OTP/PIN, that's your fault.

You might get nothing.

And till now, you had to prove fault wasn't yours.

Now, the bank has to prove fault was yours.

And you can claim this only ONCE in your life, so use it wisely!

Did you know this?

[Nikhil Jha @NIKHILLJHA]

🚨Cancer-One of the most toxic critical illnesses

Treatment of cancer can financially bankrupt a family

One of our clients was diagnosed with cancer 3 months ago!
Just look at the costs insured👇
🏦Hospitalisation-1-5 Lakhs(Cancer detected)
🏦Hospitalisation-2-17Lakhs(Cancer surgery)
🏦Day care procedure-1-88,000(Chemotherapy)
🏦Day care procedure-2-44,000(Chemotherapy)

The family has already spent nearly 23.5L,
The treatment is still going on,

He has ICICI Lombard Elevate,
The policy has unlimited restoration,
and therefore the entire bill will be taken care of by ICICI

2 claims have been settled by the insurance company,
Others are in the process of getting settled,

The family told me:-
"Nikhil Sir,
If you didnt help us get this health insurance,
We would be bankrupt by now."

One of my biggest learnings from this:-

Cancer is a very toxic illness,
A 5L or 10L policy is not sufficient to treat cancer now,

Is your current health cover enough for a modern medical crisis like cancer? 👇

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Apparently, 2BHKs in redeveloped Worli high-rises are being listed for up to Rs 4.8 crore in resale.

This is the purest Mumbai story.
You can spend your whole life earning Rs 30,000-40,000 a month in a chawl, then one fine day a builder needs your consent and suddenly you are holding an asset worth more than your family could earn in 100 years of mazdoori.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

I had hacked CBSE's OSM (On-Screen Marking Portal) in February and had reported the vulnerabilities to CERT-In, but they were unable to patch most of them.

I've written a detailed blog post about it here: https://t.co/qyT23GkTEJ

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

An Australian scientist took 800,000 human brain cells, kept them alive in a dish, wired them to a computer, and taught the cells to play the video game Pong in five minutes, which is faster than any AI on Earth had ever learned the same game.

His name is Brett Kagan.

He runs the science team at a Melbourne company called Cortical Labs, and the paper that broke the story was published in the journal Neuron in October 2022. The title sounds like a science fiction novel. In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world.

The setup was simple, and that is what made it so strange.

Kagan and his team took some brain cells from mouse embryos. They took some human brain cells grown from stem cells. They placed them on a chip covered in tiny electrodes, the size of a small coin, and they hooked the chip up to a computer running Pong.

The electrodes could do two things. They could read what the cells were doing. They could also send small bursts of electricity back into the cells.

The team used those two channels to talk to the dish.

When the ball was on the left, they fired the electrodes on the left side of the dish. When the ball was on the right, they fired the electrodes on the right. The closer the ball got to the paddle, the faster they fired. The cells could move the paddle by sending their own signals back.

That was the whole game.

Then the team added one more rule, and this is the part that changed everything.

When the cells missed the ball, they got a random, chaotic burst of electricity for four seconds. Noise. Static. Pure unpredictability. When the cells hit the ball, they got a clean, steady, predictable signal.

That was the only feedback the dish ever received.

Within five minutes, the cells started getting better at the game.

The rallies got longer. The hits got more frequent. The dish was not winning, but it was clearly playing, and it was improving, and nobody had told it the rules.

It had figured them out by itself.

The reason this worked is the part that should stop you for a second.

Brains hate surprise. That is the thing they are built to avoid. Karl Friston, who is one of the most cited neuroscientists alive and a co-author on the paper, has spent his whole career proving this. The brain is not really a thinking machine. It is a prediction machine. It runs on a single quiet rule. Make the world less surprising.

The cells in the dish were doing the same thing.

The chaotic stimulus felt like surprise. The clean stimulus felt like calm. The only way to get more calm and less chaos was to stop missing the ball. So the cells learned to stop missing the ball, not because anyone trained them, and not because they wanted a reward, but because the only way to quiet the noise was to play the game well.

They were not learning Pong. They were learning to make their own world more predictable, and Pong just happened to be the world they were stuck inside.

The same thing your brain is doing right now.

Every choice you make today, every word you reach for, every plan you build for tomorrow, is your brain trying to make the next moment less surprising than the last one. The feeling you call thinking is mostly your head doing the same thing those cells did. Trying to quiet the static.

The dish learned Pong faster than any AI had at the time, using around 800,000 cells and almost no power, while the AI systems running the same game needed thousands of times more energy and far longer training runs.

Kagan said it plainly in his interviews after the paper came out.

He said the cells were not trying to win. They were trying to feel less lost. And the moment he said that, half the room realized he was no longer just describing the dish.

He was describing them.

[The Daily Decode @Sciencedecod]

This is why Indians call her Gaumata.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

💥BREAKING: 🇮🇷 Iranian naval mine spotted in the Strait of Hormuz, off Omani waters.

[Grok @grok]

The Indian govt (Finance Ministry) launched a unified portal today: https://t.co/hC3oS4zrx9

It’s a single search point to trace unclaimed bank deposits, insurance claims, shares, dividends & mutual funds across institutions — instead of checking each one separately.

Part of the “Your Money, Your Right” campaign. Quick, free & citizen-friendly. Worth a look if you or family might have old accounts!

[Dr. Rakesh Bansal @iamrakeshbansal]

🦠 Silent Fungal Infection Spreading in India
A new resistant ringworm strain (Trichophyton indotinea) is quietly affecting many families. It causes itchy red patches on skin and spreads easily through shared towels, clothes & bedsheets.
Key Tips to Stay Safe:
• Wash infected clothes separately in hot water
• Don’t share towels or soaps
• Wear loose cotton clothes
• Keep skin dry
• Complete full medicine course
Don’t ignore skin infections — see a doctor!
https://t.co/yyVlVGZPDl

[Major Sammer Pal Toorr (Infantry Combat Veteran) @samartoor3086]

Pakistan ISI calling the shots?????

All Entry and Exit points of Mumbai are now Demographically blocked by Radicals - 4 Years left for Maharashtra Riots

1. Western Express Highway: Blocked at Mira Road, Hotel Fountain

2. Eastern Express Highway: Bhiwandi, Murbad, Kalwa, Mumbra

3. Vashi side entry: Mankhurd

4. Atal Setu side entry: Uran, Ulwe

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR SUGGESTING THIS NUCLEAR BOMB. I had no idea i was living with so many cockroaches in my home!!! Every morning looks like trump pressed the button

[Dr. Rakesh Bansal @iamrakeshbansal]

⚠️ Urgent Warning for All AC Owners in India!
Local AC service walas are often filling cheap/wrong gas like R-152a, Propane (R-290), Butane or LPG mixes instead of proper R-410A / R-32 / R-22.
These flammable gases can leak + spark = FIRE or EXPLOSION 🔥
Real case: Navy ship blast killed 3 sailors due to wrong flammable refrigerant.
✅ Always use authorized brand service
✅ Demand branded gas + invoice
✅ Never let cheap “local wala” refill blindly
Your AC can literally become a bomb. Stay safe this summer!
#ACSafety #RefrigerantScam #IndiaSummer #StaySafe

[Sonika Dutta @Sonika_dutt]

The method of cleaning bottles

To help to reduce the chances of
Infection in this summer season,

Stay healthy stay wealthy 🤑

[Jeet Mashru @mashrujeet]

Important : The Census 2027 exercise has begun from today, May 1, in Maharashtra.

The first phase involves self-enumeration by citizens.

Between May 1 and May 15, citizens are required to complete their details online by registering at https://t.co/gpBHG1t2Mk and answering a set of 33 questions.

Authorities say the process takes around 10 minutes.

This will be followed by a verification phase from May 16 onward, during which enumerators will visit households to validate the information submitted online.

The final phase will begin in 2027, involving full door-to-door enumeration.

The BMC said it has deployed around 25,000 personnel for the exercise, and citizens are expected to participate and provide accurate information when approached.

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

My college friend -a tech guy- earns ₹52 LPA in Bangalore.

Bought a 3BHK in Whitefield Bangalore last year. Wife + One small kid.

Last week he called me sounding completely broken:

“Bro… I’m actually going broke.”
I laughed.

“Bro, 52 lakh package? Stop joking.”

Then he showed me the real numbers.

Monthly take-home: ₹2.85 Lakh

Expenses:
• ₹1.08L → Home loan EMI
• ₹35k → One kid’s school fees
• ₹28k → Groceries & milk
• ₹18k → Society maintenance
• ₹18k → Maid + cook + nanny
• ₹15k → Car EMI + fuel
• ₹12k → Electricity, water, WiFi
• ₹45k → Family health insurance

Total: ₹2.93 Lakh

He is short ₹8,000 every month… before festivals, date nights, or any emergency.

A decade ago?
The same flat + same lifestyle needed only ₹18–20 lakh salary.

Today even ₹52 lakh feels like you’re running on a treadmill that keeps speeding up.

The economy is genuinely cooked for every 9-5 salaried guy who thought he “made it.”

The scariest part?

You don’t feel poor…
until the math hits you.

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

Sister has given an amazing message for those who drink hot beverages in paper cups.

I wonder how this kind of cup is even allowed to sell in India 😭😭😭

I liked her final solution. Brilliant. Share for Awareness.

#FI

[Pratham @Chatpatikhabar_]

My uncle opened a Sukanya Samriddhi Account for his daughter.

Putting ₹1 lakh/year at 8.2% interest

20 years later..

• Became ₹43 Lakh
• Zero Tax

Moral: Use government schemes
for child's future, it far beats regular bank returns.

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

Sugar in a baby's brain is called ADHD. Sugar in an adults brain is called dementia. Sugar in your eyes is called glaucoma. Sugar in your teeth is called cavities. Sugar in your sleep is called insomnia. Sugar in your blood is called diabetes. Excess sugar in your body is called cancer

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was Lalit Mehta.

He was 36 years old. A civil engineer from Jharkhand who could have worked anywhere. He stayed in Palamu, one of the most corruption ridden districts in the country.

In 1990, he built software. Not for a company. He wrote a programme that made it nearly impossible for government contractors to inflate costs and siphon off public money. He gave it away free.

He built 125 small irrigation dams with local communities at nearly half the government estimated cost. He trained villagers to file RTIs and audit government work themselves.

In May 2008, he began a social audit of NREGA projects in Chatarpur. Out of 108 names on the payment register, only 8 had actually worked. Signatures were forged. Job cards were in the names of people who had migrated. One was in the name of a dead man. An entire 5 lakh rupees pond project was fake.

He compiled everything onto a CD.

He was travelling to meet Jean Dreze the next morning to continue the audit.

He never arrived.

On May 14, 2008, his body was found in the Kandra jungle. A belt around his neck. His face smashed beyond recognition. He was buried as an unidentified body before anyone could reach him. Villagers later identified him from his clothes and exhumed the body themselves.

He is survived by his wife Ashrita Tirkey, whom he married defying caste pressure, and two sons.

His father Jagdish Mehta still holds the CD containing the evidence Lalit died to protect.

No one has been convicted for his murder.

Follow for real stories about people India must never forget.